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SLES 12 — amazon-ssm-agent — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on SLES 12

SLES 12 — amazon-ssm-agent — multiple vulnerabilities (4 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 11 September 2025 Affected versions: SLES 12 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory RHSA-2026:0436 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2025-47913 CVE-2025-21613 CVE-2022-29527 CVE-2025-22870 Upstream summary: SSH clients receiving SSH_AGENT_SUCCESS when expecting a typed response will panic and cause early termination of the client process. […]

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How to Harden SSH and Disable Root Login on Debian 13 — step-by-step Debian 13 tutorial on Progressive Robot

How to Harden SSH and Disable Root Login on Debian 13

Introduction How to Harden SSH and Disable Root Login on Debian 13 is a fundamental operation for any administrator maintaining a Debian 13 Trixie server. Debian 13 Trixie ships with the Linux 6.12 kernel, updated toolchains, and a fully refreshed package archive — meaning version numbers, configuration file paths, and some dependency chains differ from […]

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Debian 13 — libstaroffice — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — libstaroffice — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 September 2025 Affected versions: Debian 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2017-9432 Upstream summary: Document Liberation Project libstaroffice before 2017-04-07 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow related to the DatabaseName::read function in lib/StarWriterStruct.cxx. Table of contents […]

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Debian 13 — calamares — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — calamares — multiple vulnerabilities (2 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 September 2025 Affected versions: Debian 13 (trixie) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2019-13178 CVE-2019-13179 Upstream summary: modules/luksbootkeyfile/main.py in Calamares versions 3.1 through 3.2.10 has a race condition between the time when the LUKS encryption keyfile is created and when secure […]

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Debian 13 — smarty3 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — smarty3 — multiple vulnerabilities (20 CVEs) — patch and remediation guide

🟠 High   ⏱ 15–60 min  Last verified: 10 September 2025 Affected versions: Debian 13 (trixie) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2009-5052 CVE-2009-5053 CVE-2009-5054 CVE-2010-4722 CVE-2010-4723 CVE-2010-4724 CVE-2010-4725 CVE-2010-4726  +12 more Upstream summary: Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Smarty before 3.0.0 beta 6 have unknown impact and attack vectors. Table […]

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Debian 13 — libproc-processtable-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — libproc-processtable-perl — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 September 2025 Affected versions: Debian 13 (trixie) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2011-4363 Upstream summary: ProcessTable.pm in the Proc::ProcessTable module 0.45 for Perl, when TTY information caching is enabled, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack […]

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Debian 13 — jquery-minicolors — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 13

Debian 13 — jquery-minicolors — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 September 2025 Affected versions: Debian 13 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2021-32850 Upstream summary: jQuery MiniColors is a color picker built on jQuery. Prior to version 2.3.6, jQuery MiniColors is prone to cross-site scripting when handling untrusted color names. This […]

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openSUSE Tumbleweed — python3-gi-docgen — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on openSUSE Tumbleweed

openSUSE Tumbleweed — python3-gi-docgen — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟡 Medium   ⏱ 10–30 min  Last verified: 25 May 2026 Affected versions: openSUSE Tumbleweed 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: SUSE advisory SUSE-SU-2026:21159-1 (see also SUSE bugzilla) Related CVEs: CVE-2025-11687 Upstream summary: A flaw was found in the gi-docgen. This vulnerability allows arbitrary JavaScript execution in the context of the page – enabling DOM […]

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Debian 12 — pytest — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide — diagnosis and fix on Debian 12

Debian 12 — pytest — vulnerability — patch and remediation guide

🟢 Low   ⏱ 5–15 min  Last verified: 10 September 2025 Affected versions: Debian 12 (bookworm) 📖 ~4 min read  •  Source: Debian Security Tracker Related CVEs: CVE-2025-71176 Upstream summary: pytest through 9.0.2 on UNIX relies on directories with the /tmp/pytest-of-{user} name pattern, which allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly […]

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